Cancer Diagnosis

It sounds gross, but looking in the toilet before you flush can actually tell you a lot about your health. What you see can be a harmless reminder of what you ate, or it can be a sign of a serious health problem.

National Oncology Nurses' Week was recently celebrated and I couldn't help but remember the kind and caring nurses who took such good care of my Dad during his treatment for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia some 16 years ago.

Words often fail to describe the experience of receiving a cancer diagnosis. Fear, disbelief, shock, courage, strength, humor, hope; these are all words that I commonly hear. The experience is different for everyone.

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancer in the United States. Ovarian cancer is the fourth most frequent cause of cancer death in women and accounts for 5% of all cancer deaths in women in this country.